Nurse Practitioner Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Master's degree or higher from an accredited Nurse Practitioner program.
• Clinical experience sufficient to independently perform preoperative assessment, patient education, care coordination, and documentation within the nurse practitioner scope of practice.
• Experience evaluating adult patients with common acute and chronic medical conditions in a hospital, ambulatory, surgical, perioperative, internal medicine, emergency medicine, critical care, cardiology, or procedural setting.
• Current or eligible Massachusetts Nurse Practitioner license.
• Current national board certification as a Nurse Practitioner in an appropriate population focus, such as Adult-Gerontology, Family, Acute Care, or other area acceptable to the department and credentialing process.
• Current BLS certification.
• Massachusetts Controlled Substances Registration and federal DEA registration, as applicable to clinical practice and institutional requirements.
• Eligibility for appointment, credentialing, and privileging as an Advanced Practice Provider at Boston Medical Center Brighton, as applicable.
• Current ACLS certification or ability to obtain within a timeframe determined by the department.
• Minimum of 1–2 years clinical nursing experience, ideally in a critical care or acute care setting.
• Strong clinical judgment and decision-making ability.
• Team-oriented with a focus on collaboration in high-acuity environments.
• Commitment to patient safety, quality care, and professional development.
• Exceptional critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities, particularly in high pressure situations.
• In-depth knowledge of anesthesia principles, techniques, medications, and equipment.
• Proficiency in utilizing anesthesia technology, monitoring devices, and electronic medical records systems.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate with diverse healthcare professionals and interact with patients and their families.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of current anesthesia practices, research, and advancements.

Nice To Haves

• Additional certification or training relevant to perioperative medicine, internal medicine, critical care, cardiology, anesthesia, or surgical patient optimization.

Responsibilities

• Conducts comprehensive pre-admission and preoperative assessments for surgical and procedural patients, including review of medical history, medications, allergies, prior anesthesia history, functional status, comorbidities, and relevant diagnostic information.
• Identifies patients who require additional clinical optimization, specialty input, testing, medication planning, or anesthesia review prior to surgery or procedures.
• Orders, reviews, interprets, and follows up on appropriate preoperative testing within scope of practice, institutional policy, and established perioperative protocols.
• Assesses and manages common perioperative risk factors, including cardiovascular, pulmonary, endocrine, renal, anticoagulation, medication, frailty, and social or access-related considerations that may affect procedural readiness.
• Collaborates with anesthesiologists, surgeons, proceduralists, registered nurses, residents, primary care providers, specialty consultants, and administrative staff to resolve clinical and operational issues before the day of surgery.
• Provides clear patient and family education regarding preoperative instructions, medication management, testing needs, follow-up requirements, and perioperative expectations.
• Completes accurate, timely, and thorough documentation in the electronic medical record and ensures preoperative assessments meet hospital, departmental, regulatory, and clinical standards.
• Escalates complex, high-risk, incomplete, or time-sensitive cases to anesthesia, surgical, nursing, APP, or operational leadership as appropriate to support safe patient care and reliable OR/procedural throughput.
• Contributes to performance improvement efforts related to patient readiness, PAT throughput, cancellation reduction, documentation quality, patient safety, resident education, and standard work development.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• pharmacy
• discretionary annual bonuses
• merit increases
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• 403(b) savings matches
• paid time off
• career advancement opportunities
• resources to support employee and family wellbeing